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HTMLDListElement

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The HTMLDListElement interface provides special properties (beyond those of the regular HTMLElement interface it also has available to it by inheritance) for manipulating definition list (<dl>) elements.

EventTarget Node Element HTMLElement HTMLDListElement

Instance properties

Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement.

HTMLDListElement.compact

A boolean value indicating that spacing between list items should be reduced.

Instance methods

No specific methods; inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement.

Specifications

Specification
HTML>
# htmldlistelement>

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
HTMLDListElement 1 12 1 ≤12.1 3 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1
compact 1 12 1 ≤12.1 3 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

See also

  • The HTML element implementing this interface: <dl>

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